Charity Bake Sale: As If You Needed A Good Cause To Enjoy Some Sweets, But Here’s One

L.A. blogger Tannaz fills us in on the second annual No Cookie Left Behind bake sale, which is part of Share Our Strength’s Great American Bake Sale. She writes:

This year’s offerings include banana caramel cake, homemade chocolate peanut butter cups, chocolate Guinness cake, cupcakes by the dozen, lemon bars, zucchini bread, sweet almond bread, a wild mushroom tart, many mini banana bread loaves, Spork Foods vegan cookies, Paulette macarons, Lark Cake Shop cakes, and much, much more.

What’s even better, the event takes place at our beloved Scoops.

As you can see, it takes place this Saturday from noon to 4. Scoops is at 712 N. Heliotrope (off Melrose, next to L.A. City College).

Rate-A-Restaurant #174: Bosco Cake Salon

Restaurant: Bosco Cake Salon

Location: 3465 E 6th St (Koreatown)

Type of restaurant: Dessert

They stipulated: It’s more than cakes at Bosco — don’t be fooled by the name. You may even be better off getting patbingsu — Korean-style shave ice.

We stipulated: We were meeting our friend Mika for dinner, and I suggested we finally try the L.A. outpost of Korean fried chicken joint BonChon Chicken. Afterward, walking down 6th for dessert, we wandered into the Chapman Market (blog post to come) and decided to try out Bosco.

What we ordered: The patbingsu Korean shave ice dessert — which we all shared — as well as a sweet potato cake and a raspberry heart-shaped cake.

High point: The spot is comfy — nice furniture — and the cakes were right on; the sweet potato cake was extra sweet potato-y. But the highlight had to be the patbingsu. The four of us (Evan was there too) devoured it.

Low point: The prices are out of whack here — $4 for coffee? Maybe the late-night crowd won’t bat an eye, but we were taken aback.

Overall impression: These fancy Korean dessert restaurants are popping up all over the place — and how can I not like a trend that involves dessert. Much more formal than Paris Baguette — which I like for the prices and the self service — Bosco is still a great spot to linger, cake and coffee in front of you, in a comfy environment for hours. It wasn’t too crowded on a Saturday night, and they weren’t in a rush to shoo us out.

Chance we’ll go back: If we’re in the area and in the mood for dessert (albeit, pricey dessert), we may stop by — especially to show off the Chapman Market to others. (Again, separate blog post coming.)

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